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...steelhead trout fishing trip [Jan. 1], I arose at 5 a.m., drove 2½ hours over snow-covered roads, experienced a near-fatal skid, stood from dawn to dusk in icy, chest-high water, and was buffeted by 50-knot gales. After being forced to drive the last 32 miles of the return trip home at 15 m.p.h. because of ice and slush, I at last staggered into the house at 8 p.m. proudly holding aloft the object of my efforts-a nine-pound "buck" steelhead! What do you mean, steelhead fishermen are "screwy people...
...Citizens Emergency Committee to Save Memorial Drive has discontinued its dawn patrols of the Charles riverbank...
Subsequent events were almost a ritual. There was the usual nighttime powwow by the angered officers. Before dawn the next day, Sunday-it seems to be always on Sunday-there were ominous troop movements in Saigon. Reportedly the operation was directed by Brigadier General Nguyen Chanh Thi, the mustached, intense commander of the I Corps in the northern region, and Air Vice Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, who affects harlequin glasses and a pearl-handled revolver. Squads of police sped through Saigon's darkened streets, arresting seven council members and a dozen-odd politicians and student leaders...
...enjoying a sunlit view of their country-house garden. He (Henderson Forsythe) is a scholar of distant cultures. She (Frances Sternhagen) is a busy suburban bee. Edward is obsessively irked by a human blight just beyond the garden, an aged, decrepit match-seller who haunts the forsaken site from dawn to dusk with no prospect of selling matches. Edward invites the old man into the house to have it out with him. The matchseller looks like a cross between a Skid Row derelict and a desert-baked Bible prophet, and he remains silent throughout the play. For Edward, the matchseller...
Died. William Pels, 48, wry, worldly president of ultra-progressive Bennington College for girls since 1957, who enthusiastically supported such famed Bennington trademarks as the nine-week semester of outside work, the dawn curfew for girls and 6 p.m. quitting time for boys visiting in dormitory rooms, explaining to distraught mothers and skeptical colleagues: "If regulations are too strict, you run your students into automobiles and motels"; of cancer; in Manhattan...